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The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 195, Thursday, July 7, 1887

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VOL. 4. NO 195. WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1SS7. PRICE 6 CENTSfflrg
ffiooB*.
SANGER BROS
ANOTHER GRAND EVENT
On Monday, July 11th,
WE WILL INAUGURATE
OUR GREAT SEMIANNUAL
CLEARING SALE!
AVe give due notice so that out of town as well as J city
customers can get the benefit of the unusual attractive
Bargains that we offer during our clearing sales.
OUR OBJECT IS
To sell as much as possible of Spring and Summer Goods
on hand. To do this some lines will be sold without regard
to cost, other lines at cost, and others at a big reduction on
regular prices. The reductions will be gauged by the amount
of stock on hand in each line.
Out Of Town Customers
* Can take advantage of this sale either through our mail
order department or come in person. In all cases we pay
express charges to any express point in the state on all orders
of two dollars or over.
■
•
REMEMBER THE COMMENCEMENT DATE
OF THIS BONA FIDE SALE!
Monday, July 11th.
Sanger brothers.
jratlrv.
W. M. RAGLAUD
(Established in 1871.)
OLDEST & X^AZROZEST
JEWELRY
n the City.
!to.^8«0, Austin Arena', Wseo, Texas.
Engraving and Repairing Dane Neatly and
Promptly. All Goods and Work W3rrented
as Represented.
&refcrion Bruggfsis.
THE OLD CORNER DRDG STORE,
IS THE eading Prescription Drug
STORE IN CENTRAL TEXA.S.3 I
COMPLETE STOCK OF SS>UIB'S PREPARATIONS AND\ME
CHE Mi CALS* iavsret
Only Best Of Medicines Used In Prescriptions
BULLDOZED AGAIN.
THE PRESIDENT DECLINES TO
VISIT ST. LOUIS.
A Fatherly Talk to the G. A. R.— Mormon
Missionaries Threatened —
Hung by a Mob—A New Know
Nothing Platform.
The President Declines.
Associated Press.
St. Louis, July 7.—Mayor Francis of
this city has received a letter from President
Cleveland declining the invitation
of citizens of St. Louis to attend the annu;
J encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic which is to take place here
inj September. After expressing his
gratification at the invitation from the
citizens and committee, he expresses regret
that several official acts, which he
says "were ‘done under restraint of
the oath he had taken as president, had
brought out expressions from promineut
members of the . Grand Army
of the Republic which constrained
him to review hisactiofis and he now believes
that he |would be an unwelcome
visitor and feels hurt at the wanton attack
growing out of his official acts,
which the Grand Army has taken exceptions
to. He has received threats of
personal violence from scores of unbalanced
and misguided men, and he
feels that the high office which he holds
should not be subjected to such indignity.
He rflso learns that many Grand Army
posts have signified their intention to remain
at home if the president visits the
encampment and as this is their encampment
he desires to throw nothing in the
way of bringing them all together. As
this was the first southern town in which
an encampment has been held, he believed
that the least discord might retard
the progress of the sentiment
of common brotherhood
which the G. A. R. has se good
opportunity to increase ind foster. He
feels that he ought net to be the cause
of discord. He says there are some determined
to denounce him and his offidal
acts, and he does not wish to afford
them an opportunity. He closes with
the hope that the encampment may illustrate
the highest patriotism of Ameri
can citizenship.
The White Cap Knights.
Associated Press.
CLEVELAND*0.,July 6.~The Press has
received from a member ef the Knights
of the Switch, who 90 terribly whipped a
couple of disreputable women at Win
•Chester, O., a week or.two ago and yesterday
chastised the Naushee brothers
at, Coyden, Ind., a Letter setting forth
the character and aims of the organization.
The informant alleges that the
order was formed at Pittsburg three
weeks ago for the .purpose of dealing
with three murderers, in jail at that place
and who seem likely to escape legal
hanging. “Your fur .robbers,” he con
tihues, “will never escape, as the Chi
cago anarchists will not escape even if
given anew trial, and the jury will not
escape us if they render a verdict of less
than murder in the first degree.” Several
members of the Cleveland Common
Council are threatened with extermination
for having yoted to pass an ordinance
permitting Sunday base ball playing.
The official name of the organization
is “The White Capped Knights, or
Invincibles of Law and Order.” There
branches are in very large city in the
.United States. Its avowed object is to
mete out justice where the law is perverted,
or where it has no jurisdiction,
and has for its motto, “Every tree that
our father has planted must be rooted
nn **
Mobbing Mormon Elders.
Associated Press.
Charleston, S. C, July 7.—Serious
trouble is threatened on the banks of the
Savannah River, near Augusta. The
Rev. David Bierron and Elders Spencer
and Murray,Mormons, have been preaching
in that locality for some time. They
have converted about twentyfive farriilies.
The doctrine expounded is that all
who do not adopt the faith of Mormonism
and go to U tah before 1893 will be
destroyed by fire; that no marriages are
in accordance with the laws of God except
by the sanction of the Mormon
church and that no woman can attain to
absolute perfection in the future state
unless married in this life. Notice to
leave the locality has been served on
the missionaries by the more responsible
citizens, but they refuse to go. They
are backed up by their converts and dedare
that they will resist any attempt of
the regulators to drive them out. They
have been warned to leave within twentyfour
hours.
Freak of an Insane Woman.
Associated Press.
St. Louis, July 7.—A dispatch from
Paducah, Ky., says that, in 1873, while
J. Hamp Swift was sheriff of Calloway
county, Ky., his accounts were $3000
short. He thought the deputy had robbed
him, making good the deficiency. It
bankrupted him, and he has since supported
his family as a day laborer. Recently
his wife was sent to an insare
asylum, and, in her ravings, told that
the money was hidden in the smokehouse.
Investigation revealed $3200 in
greenbacks. It is thought she concealed
the money in one of her attacks. The
discovery not only set the exsheriff on
his feet, but cleared his reputation of
suspicion.
Hung by a Mob.
Associated Press.
Peru, Ind., July 7.—Dr. E. B. Norton,
chief surgeon of the Wabash railroad
hospital, was called to the residence of
James Christianson at 10 o’clok yesterday
morning, on a report that Christianson
had shot himself. The physician
found the supposed injured man in a
shed near the house and as he approached
Christianson jumped to his
feet and drove the doctor from the shed.
The doctor hastily closed the door, but
Christianson forced his way out
and fired twice with a fortyeight
calibre revolver. There
was no provocation for this assault. It
appears that Christianson was exasperated
at the marriage of his 16yearold
daughter, and early in the morning had
tried to kill her, but had been frustrated.
Retiring to the shed he fired and it was
supposed he had committed suiride,
and Dr. North was summoned.
Christianson was jailed. Excitement on
the streets was intense and there was free
talk of taking Christianson from jail and
hanging him. At 12:50 this morning,
twentytwo masked men appeared at the
jail and demanded the keys. This was
refused and the mob broke down a large
iron door. In fifteen minutes they had
Christianson in their possession. He
was taken on a dead run down Burdy
street to a bridge crossing the Wabash
river, where he was twice strung up, first
without the desired result but the second
time he was extinguished. The lynching
was witnessed by about 1,000 people.
Dr. North is lying in a very critical condition,
with chances against his recovery.
Swept by Another Fire.
Associated Press.
Erie, Penn., July 7.—The terrible fire
which swept the little town of Clarendon
Monday was supplemented yesterday by
another visitation, which threatened to
wipe out what remained of the village.
A strong wind fanned the smouldering
piles into flames and turned them toward
the town again. The oil well of Patrick
Conners was first seized upon, and
the flames rapidly communicated
to the buildings of others,
until five derricks and fixtures were a
solid mass of fire. Assistance came
from Warren and succeeded after a terrible
fight in gaining mastery over the
fire. The count of buildings destroyed
on Monday foots up 281. There are but
16 houses left in town. One hundred
tents, which were sent by the government
are being used by some of the
homeless. It is now known that one
child perished in the flames and two or
three grown persons are badly burned.
The First Georgia Bale.
Associated Press.
Albany, Ga July 7—To the Cotton
Exchange, New Orleans: We bought the
first bale of cotton of the crop of 1887 t.
day. It was raised by Pimus Jonerf,
Its weight is 550 pounds, grade low middling.
It was shipped tj Coles, Simkins
& Ccl, Brunswick, Ga. Price paid 20
cents. Coles, Simkins & Co.
The first bale of last year’s crop was
reported from Galveston, July 16. This
year’s bale is the earliest since 1882,
when a bale was reported at the same
date, July 5, from Houston, Texas.
Texas Cattle Fever.
Associated Press.
Chicago, July f.—A special from Lincoin,
Nebraska, says the state veterinary
received a dispatch today announcing
that notwithstanding Nebraska’s rigid
quarantine, Texas fever has broken out
at Takamaha, Burt county, and over
thirty cattle have died since yesterday.
It is known thaM,ooo Texas cattle were
unloaded at Tahomah in April, getting
into the state, it is supposed through
the connivance of some quarantine
official.
Pure uncolored teas of all grades, qualities
and prices. Remember we can duplicate or
beat any sample of tea in quality and price.
Marshall & Heard.
Iced Tea.
An excellent mixed tea at 50 cents, at
Marshall & Heard’s.
Iced Tea.
All grades of teas from 25 cents to $1.00
per pound at Marshall & Heard’s.
Marriage is love’s usual sequel;
Jackson’s photographs have no equal.
Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption Cure s
sold by us on a guarantee. It curee consumption.
W. L. Tucker, i
TIIE LIQUOR TRAFFIC..
ITS RELATIONS TO THE LAW.
AND TO SOCIETY.
It May be Regulated or Repressed
Without an Invasion of Liberty—
Dr. Carroll’s Masterly Speech
at Padgitt’s Park.
UNFAIR TERMS OF DISCUSSION.
Fellow Citizens: 1 never heard the
Hon. R. Q. Mills make a speech, on any
subject, in my life. Today, at his own
appointment, I am required by the only
attainable terms of discussion, to reply,
beforehand, to the speech he will make
when 1 am done. It will not do to say
that 1 have a half hour’s rejoinder, because
that half hour must be used, according
to the same antiprohibition
formula, in replying, again beforehand,.
to his closing speech.
Nor will it avail to say that I am in the
affirmative, for in that case, according to
all accepted rules of debate, I would
have the closing speech. The challenge
for this discussion came primarily from
Judge George Clark, who claimed and
dictated every term of the discussion,
whether of time, order or place.
Being unable to corkscrew any other
terms out of him, I have recalled my
published appointments at Will’s Point
and Tyler, to meet this Ajax Telamon,
of the liquor traffic on any terms.
A few days ago I met his lieutenants,
John D. Lee and Rufus Hardy at
Athens. Not having gone as far inta
this matter as their chieftain, they ac*
cepted fair and honoroble terms of discussion,
and fought their battle out
manfully.
While I have instructed my boys
never to exact an advantage of an adversai
y, while they bear my name, yet for
myself I rejoice to grapple with CoL
Mills on unequal terms because it lays
the foundation for this argument.
If such a man as Congressman Mills,
a redoubtable athlete and oiled gladiator
on a hundred arenas, state and national,
requires manifest advantages in meeting
one whom he is pleased to style “a polibcal
priest,” then the conclusion comes
like aconqueror that a conscious weakness
of a bad cause claims unusual lav—
ors, unknown, undemanded and unaccorded
in righteous controversies.
That bad cause it >6 now my pleasure
and duty to impeach of high crimes and
misdemeanors.
After drawing my bow at a venture,
and sending a shaft where I suppose my
adversary to be, I must then stand uncovered,
in an open field and receive
the shot where he knows me to be.
Concerning Col. Mills’ private character
or personal habits, either past or
present, I have nothing to say, except »o
concede cheerfully in that direction all
that he himself or his warmest admirers
may claim. With measures, and not
personalities, is my business today.
In this connection it affords me pleasure
to say here and now, that on this
subject the right of private judgment
ought to be ungrudgingly accorded to
all men, whether white or black, saint orr
sinner.
Precedent to all argument 1 desire,
here to read certain
GREAT PRINCIPLES
enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, S. J.
Tilden, John Stuart Mill and Victor
Hugo.
Three of the quotations from Jefferson
and the one from Mr. Tilden are •
taken from Col. Mills’ speech at Corsicana
which was handed me yesterday
evening.
Mr. Jefferson says: “It is better to
keep the wolf out of the fold than to
turn to drawing his teeth and talons
after he shall have entered.” Vol. VIII,
page 398.
Again as quoted on the twelfth page
of Mr. Mills’ speech: “In questions of
power” he says to us, “let no more be
heard ol confidence in man but bind him
down from mischief by the claims of the
constitution.”
Again on the 16th page of the speech
quoted from Mr. Jefferson's inaugural
address: .
“With all these blessings what more isnecessary
to^make us a happy and prosperous
people. Still one thing more,
fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government,
which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave:
them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement
and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is.
the sum of good government and thisis
necessary to close the circle of our
felicities.”
Jefferson Memoirs, Vol. I, pages 66
67: “Honest error must be arrested
where its toleration leads to public ruin—
as, for the safety of society, we commit
honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges
should be withdrawn from their bench
Continue on Fourth Page,

VOL. 4. NO 195. WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1SS7. PRICE 6 CENTSfflrg
ffiooB*.
SANGER BROS
ANOTHER GRAND EVENT
On Monday, July 11th,
WE WILL INAUGURATE
OUR GREAT SEMIANNUAL
CLEARING SALE!
AVe give due notice so that out of town as well as J city
customers can get the benefit of the unusual attractive
Bargains that we offer during our clearing sales.
OUR OBJECT IS
To sell as much as possible of Spring and Summer Goods
on hand. To do this some lines will be sold without regard
to cost, other lines at cost, and others at a big reduction on
regular prices. The reductions will be gauged by the amount
of stock on hand in each line.
Out Of Town Customers
* Can take advantage of this sale either through our mail
order department or come in person. In all cases we pay
express charges to any express point in the state on all orders
of two dollars or over.
■
•
REMEMBER THE COMMENCEMENT DATE
OF THIS BONA FIDE SALE!
Monday, July 11th.
Sanger brothers.
jratlrv.
W. M. RAGLAUD
(Established in 1871.)
OLDEST & X^AZROZEST
JEWELRY
n the City.
!to.^8«0, Austin Arena', Wseo, Texas.
Engraving and Repairing Dane Neatly and
Promptly. All Goods and Work W3rrented
as Represented.
&refcrion Bruggfsis.
THE OLD CORNER DRDG STORE,
IS THE eading Prescription Drug
STORE IN CENTRAL TEXA.S.3 I
COMPLETE STOCK OF SS>UIB'S PREPARATIONS AND\ME
CHE Mi CALS* iavsret
Only Best Of Medicines Used In Prescriptions
BULLDOZED AGAIN.
THE PRESIDENT DECLINES TO
VISIT ST. LOUIS.
A Fatherly Talk to the G. A. R.— Mormon
Missionaries Threatened —
Hung by a Mob—A New Know
Nothing Platform.
The President Declines.
Associated Press.
St. Louis, July 7.—Mayor Francis of
this city has received a letter from President
Cleveland declining the invitation
of citizens of St. Louis to attend the annu;
J encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic which is to take place here
inj September. After expressing his
gratification at the invitation from the
citizens and committee, he expresses regret
that several official acts, which he
says "were ‘done under restraint of
the oath he had taken as president, had
brought out expressions from promineut
members of the . Grand Army
of the Republic which constrained
him to review hisactiofis and he now believes
that he |would be an unwelcome
visitor and feels hurt at the wanton attack
growing out of his official acts,
which the Grand Army has taken exceptions
to. He has received threats of
personal violence from scores of unbalanced
and misguided men, and he
feels that the high office which he holds
should not be subjected to such indignity.
He rflso learns that many Grand Army
posts have signified their intention to remain
at home if the president visits the
encampment and as this is their encampment
he desires to throw nothing in the
way of bringing them all together. As
this was the first southern town in which
an encampment has been held, he believed
that the least discord might retard
the progress of the sentiment
of common brotherhood
which the G. A. R. has se good
opportunity to increase ind foster. He
feels that he ought net to be the cause
of discord. He says there are some determined
to denounce him and his offidal
acts, and he does not wish to afford
them an opportunity. He closes with
the hope that the encampment may illustrate
the highest patriotism of Ameri
can citizenship.
The White Cap Knights.
Associated Press.
CLEVELAND*0.,July 6.~The Press has
received from a member ef the Knights
of the Switch, who 90 terribly whipped a
couple of disreputable women at Win
•Chester, O., a week or.two ago and yesterday
chastised the Naushee brothers
at, Coyden, Ind., a Letter setting forth
the character and aims of the organization.
The informant alleges that the
order was formed at Pittsburg three
weeks ago for the .purpose of dealing
with three murderers, in jail at that place
and who seem likely to escape legal
hanging. “Your fur .robbers,” he con
tihues, “will never escape, as the Chi
cago anarchists will not escape even if
given anew trial, and the jury will not
escape us if they render a verdict of less
than murder in the first degree.” Several
members of the Cleveland Common
Council are threatened with extermination
for having yoted to pass an ordinance
permitting Sunday base ball playing.
The official name of the organization
is “The White Capped Knights, or
Invincibles of Law and Order.” There
branches are in very large city in the
.United States. Its avowed object is to
mete out justice where the law is perverted,
or where it has no jurisdiction,
and has for its motto, “Every tree that
our father has planted must be rooted
nn **
Mobbing Mormon Elders.
Associated Press.
Charleston, S. C, July 7.—Serious
trouble is threatened on the banks of the
Savannah River, near Augusta. The
Rev. David Bierron and Elders Spencer
and Murray,Mormons, have been preaching
in that locality for some time. They
have converted about twentyfive farriilies.
The doctrine expounded is that all
who do not adopt the faith of Mormonism
and go to U tah before 1893 will be
destroyed by fire; that no marriages are
in accordance with the laws of God except
by the sanction of the Mormon
church and that no woman can attain to
absolute perfection in the future state
unless married in this life. Notice to
leave the locality has been served on
the missionaries by the more responsible
citizens, but they refuse to go. They
are backed up by their converts and dedare
that they will resist any attempt of
the regulators to drive them out. They
have been warned to leave within twentyfour
hours.
Freak of an Insane Woman.
Associated Press.
St. Louis, July 7.—A dispatch from
Paducah, Ky., says that, in 1873, while
J. Hamp Swift was sheriff of Calloway
county, Ky., his accounts were $3000
short. He thought the deputy had robbed
him, making good the deficiency. It
bankrupted him, and he has since supported
his family as a day laborer. Recently
his wife was sent to an insare
asylum, and, in her ravings, told that
the money was hidden in the smokehouse.
Investigation revealed $3200 in
greenbacks. It is thought she concealed
the money in one of her attacks. The
discovery not only set the exsheriff on
his feet, but cleared his reputation of
suspicion.
Hung by a Mob.
Associated Press.
Peru, Ind., July 7.—Dr. E. B. Norton,
chief surgeon of the Wabash railroad
hospital, was called to the residence of
James Christianson at 10 o’clok yesterday
morning, on a report that Christianson
had shot himself. The physician
found the supposed injured man in a
shed near the house and as he approached
Christianson jumped to his
feet and drove the doctor from the shed.
The doctor hastily closed the door, but
Christianson forced his way out
and fired twice with a fortyeight
calibre revolver. There
was no provocation for this assault. It
appears that Christianson was exasperated
at the marriage of his 16yearold
daughter, and early in the morning had
tried to kill her, but had been frustrated.
Retiring to the shed he fired and it was
supposed he had committed suiride,
and Dr. North was summoned.
Christianson was jailed. Excitement on
the streets was intense and there was free
talk of taking Christianson from jail and
hanging him. At 12:50 this morning,
twentytwo masked men appeared at the
jail and demanded the keys. This was
refused and the mob broke down a large
iron door. In fifteen minutes they had
Christianson in their possession. He
was taken on a dead run down Burdy
street to a bridge crossing the Wabash
river, where he was twice strung up, first
without the desired result but the second
time he was extinguished. The lynching
was witnessed by about 1,000 people.
Dr. North is lying in a very critical condition,
with chances against his recovery.
Swept by Another Fire.
Associated Press.
Erie, Penn., July 7.—The terrible fire
which swept the little town of Clarendon
Monday was supplemented yesterday by
another visitation, which threatened to
wipe out what remained of the village.
A strong wind fanned the smouldering
piles into flames and turned them toward
the town again. The oil well of Patrick
Conners was first seized upon, and
the flames rapidly communicated
to the buildings of others,
until five derricks and fixtures were a
solid mass of fire. Assistance came
from Warren and succeeded after a terrible
fight in gaining mastery over the
fire. The count of buildings destroyed
on Monday foots up 281. There are but
16 houses left in town. One hundred
tents, which were sent by the government
are being used by some of the
homeless. It is now known that one
child perished in the flames and two or
three grown persons are badly burned.
The First Georgia Bale.
Associated Press.
Albany, Ga July 7—To the Cotton
Exchange, New Orleans: We bought the
first bale of cotton of the crop of 1887 t.
day. It was raised by Pimus Jonerf,
Its weight is 550 pounds, grade low middling.
It was shipped tj Coles, Simkins
& Ccl, Brunswick, Ga. Price paid 20
cents. Coles, Simkins & Co.
The first bale of last year’s crop was
reported from Galveston, July 16. This
year’s bale is the earliest since 1882,
when a bale was reported at the same
date, July 5, from Houston, Texas.
Texas Cattle Fever.
Associated Press.
Chicago, July f.—A special from Lincoin,
Nebraska, says the state veterinary
received a dispatch today announcing
that notwithstanding Nebraska’s rigid
quarantine, Texas fever has broken out
at Takamaha, Burt county, and over
thirty cattle have died since yesterday.
It is known thaM,ooo Texas cattle were
unloaded at Tahomah in April, getting
into the state, it is supposed through
the connivance of some quarantine
official.
Pure uncolored teas of all grades, qualities
and prices. Remember we can duplicate or
beat any sample of tea in quality and price.
Marshall & Heard.
Iced Tea.
An excellent mixed tea at 50 cents, at
Marshall & Heard’s.
Iced Tea.
All grades of teas from 25 cents to $1.00
per pound at Marshall & Heard’s.
Marriage is love’s usual sequel;
Jackson’s photographs have no equal.
Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption Cure s
sold by us on a guarantee. It curee consumption.
W. L. Tucker, i
TIIE LIQUOR TRAFFIC..
ITS RELATIONS TO THE LAW.
AND TO SOCIETY.
It May be Regulated or Repressed
Without an Invasion of Liberty—
Dr. Carroll’s Masterly Speech
at Padgitt’s Park.
UNFAIR TERMS OF DISCUSSION.
Fellow Citizens: 1 never heard the
Hon. R. Q. Mills make a speech, on any
subject, in my life. Today, at his own
appointment, I am required by the only
attainable terms of discussion, to reply,
beforehand, to the speech he will make
when 1 am done. It will not do to say
that 1 have a half hour’s rejoinder, because
that half hour must be used, according
to the same antiprohibition
formula, in replying, again beforehand,.
to his closing speech.
Nor will it avail to say that I am in the
affirmative, for in that case, according to
all accepted rules of debate, I would
have the closing speech. The challenge
for this discussion came primarily from
Judge George Clark, who claimed and
dictated every term of the discussion,
whether of time, order or place.
Being unable to corkscrew any other
terms out of him, I have recalled my
published appointments at Will’s Point
and Tyler, to meet this Ajax Telamon,
of the liquor traffic on any terms.
A few days ago I met his lieutenants,
John D. Lee and Rufus Hardy at
Athens. Not having gone as far inta
this matter as their chieftain, they ac*
cepted fair and honoroble terms of discussion,
and fought their battle out
manfully.
While I have instructed my boys
never to exact an advantage of an adversai
y, while they bear my name, yet for
myself I rejoice to grapple with CoL
Mills on unequal terms because it lays
the foundation for this argument.
If such a man as Congressman Mills,
a redoubtable athlete and oiled gladiator
on a hundred arenas, state and national,
requires manifest advantages in meeting
one whom he is pleased to style “a polibcal
priest,” then the conclusion comes
like aconqueror that a conscious weakness
of a bad cause claims unusual lav—
ors, unknown, undemanded and unaccorded
in righteous controversies.
That bad cause it >6 now my pleasure
and duty to impeach of high crimes and
misdemeanors.
After drawing my bow at a venture,
and sending a shaft where I suppose my
adversary to be, I must then stand uncovered,
in an open field and receive
the shot where he knows me to be.
Concerning Col. Mills’ private character
or personal habits, either past or
present, I have nothing to say, except »o
concede cheerfully in that direction all
that he himself or his warmest admirers
may claim. With measures, and not
personalities, is my business today.
In this connection it affords me pleasure
to say here and now, that on this
subject the right of private judgment
ought to be ungrudgingly accorded to
all men, whether white or black, saint orr
sinner.
Precedent to all argument 1 desire,
here to read certain
GREAT PRINCIPLES
enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, S. J.
Tilden, John Stuart Mill and Victor
Hugo.
Three of the quotations from Jefferson
and the one from Mr. Tilden are •
taken from Col. Mills’ speech at Corsicana
which was handed me yesterday
evening.
Mr. Jefferson says: “It is better to
keep the wolf out of the fold than to
turn to drawing his teeth and talons
after he shall have entered.” Vol. VIII,
page 398.
Again as quoted on the twelfth page
of Mr. Mills’ speech: “In questions of
power” he says to us, “let no more be
heard ol confidence in man but bind him
down from mischief by the claims of the
constitution.”
Again on the 16th page of the speech
quoted from Mr. Jefferson's inaugural
address: .
“With all these blessings what more isnecessary
to^make us a happy and prosperous
people. Still one thing more,
fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government,
which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave:
them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement
and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is.
the sum of good government and thisis
necessary to close the circle of our
felicities.”
Jefferson Memoirs, Vol. I, pages 66
67: “Honest error must be arrested
where its toleration leads to public ruin—
as, for the safety of society, we commit
honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges
should be withdrawn from their bench
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